SSHLibrary Write fails when prompt is not set

[yanne]

**What steps will reproduce the problem?**
1. Open SSH connection and login to Linux machine
2. Write 'ls' (or any other string)

**What is the expected output? What do you see instead?**
Expected output: clear error message, like 'Write failed, use Set Prompt first'

Instead, I get:

08:38:57.197    TRACE   Arguments: [ write ]
08:38:57.526    INFO    Writing 'write\n'
08:38:57.526    INFO    Opening new channel
08:38:57.526    FAIL    TypeError: expected a character buffer object
08:38:57.526    INFO    Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SSHLibrary\__init__.py", line 271, in
write
   self.write_bare(text)
 File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SSHLibrary\__init__.py", line 283, in
write_bare
   self.client.write(text, self._prompt)
 File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SSHLibrary\pythonclient.py", line 66,
in write
   print '*INFO* %s' % self.read_until(prompt, 30)
 File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\SSHLibrary\pythonclient.py", line 83,
in read_until
   if data.count(expected) > 0:

**What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?**
lib 0.5 + Windows XP. Same behaviour on Linux

**Please provide any additional information below.**

This issue was originally opened at Google Code on Jul 21, 2008.

[yanne]

Original comment by lau...@gmail.com on Jul 22, 2008.

I'm not sure but most likely the prompt needs to be set before Write (and other related keywords) work. This should be documented better and the error message should definitely be better.

[yanne]

Original comment by janne.t....@gmail.com on Aug 5, 2008.

Fixed in r10 and r13 (code and docs, respectively) SSHLibrary version 0.6 will released tomorrow.